Improvement in the mode of attaching the eyes to the blades of hoes



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

HENRY HAVELL, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE MODE 0F ATTACHING THE EYES TO THE BLADES 0F HOES.

Specilication forming part of Letters Patent- No. 16,584, dated February 10, 1857.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY HAVELL, of the city ot Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Mode ot' Attaching Malleable-Iron Eyes to Hoes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which drawings are lettered to correspond with and constitute a, part of this specitication.

In order that the public may fully understand the nature of my invention and those skilled inthe art be enabled to construct the same, I will describe it as follows:

Figure l is a perspective view of a hoe having a malleable-iron eye attached to it al'ter my plan. Fig. 2 is a representation ot the wrought-iron cap A and the steel blade B, ready to receive the pad of the eye. This wroughtiron cap, or its equivalent, is made to correspond with the shape of the malleableiron pad or lower projection of the eye C, Fig. 3, and is sufliciently raised in the center to allow the pad of the eye to pass in to the socket formed by the dat surface of the blade B and the wrought-iron cap A.

When each of the separate parts are in their proper places the whole is heated to the re quired heat for welding and then placed under a drop-hammer, that completes the operation of attaching the eye by a single blow in such a manner that any sudden stroke upon the back of the blade will not loosen the eye, as is the case with most ot' the hoes that have castiron eyes simply welded upon the blade without being protected bv a cap, or otherwise secured to the blade. The wrought-iron cap adheres to both the steel blade and malleableiron pad ot' the eye, consequently when welded forms apart ot the whole and makes a stronger and better finish.

I do not claim the individual parts of a hoe, neither do I claim welding the malleable-iron eye to the blade; but

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

The cap A, which forms a' socket with the blade B to receive the malleable-iron eye, and becomes apart of the same,in the manner and for the purpose substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name in the presence of two witnesses.

HENRY HAVELL.

TVitnesses:

THOMAS L. SIMS, J AMES P. MCLEAN. 

